Tuesday, October 27, 2009

THIS MONTH'S ATC for GROUP SWAP

This month our theme was "Fractured Fairy Tales"....
and me being me, got it wrong and came up with a
"Fractured Nursery Rhyme" ATC.
However, after running it past the boss lady, Bevlea,
I was granted permission to use it!

I sourced a 1950's Pin-up girl from the inter-net then went surfing for three suitable fellows to take a bath with her...I think they are just the right ones, don't you? She has brains, culture and last but not least....swashbuckling good looks!

The BG is of my hand dyed paper and the 3 is a Cuttlebug die cut, using silver cardstock. The edges are distressed with Ranger ink.

Mr. Einstein is 3D mounted, both at the head and the
left arm and I coloured in the bath bubbles with a white marker. 



Monday, October 19, 2009

SPOOKY ANCESTORS UPDATE


This is my FINISHED 6 x 4 inch book page for our PaperArts Sept Swap,which, due to a change of themes, is late in being finalised.

We all had to use collage sheet images from Itkupilli , so our completed book will have a great uniform look to it.

There are 13 participants which is just the right amount for the theme...don't you agree?

All the images on my page are 3D mounted onto the background. I used medical gauze for the "grass" and painted over it with a yucky mix of acrylic paints.

Here we have the Bonehead family in a family portrait.

Mother, altho' a little shaky on her old bones, is dressed in her best old gown and is sporting a beautiful black rose hat which I think really enhances her wonderful high cheekbones!

The children were on their best behavior as they were promised that they could watch the DVD "How Frankenstein Met his Death" after the photo shoot if they stood still and put on a startled face!

Little Hedra was always Daddy's favourite so she was given the privilege of holding what was left of him so he would be included. You can see by the smile on his face that he was thrilled to be there.

  Hannibal took along his pet, "Blackie" who was kept on a short rein so as not to creep off out of the camera's range. It also ensured that the nasty black crow that was eying him off would not swoop down and take him for his supper!

Hannibal's twin sister, Lucretia found the whole time boring as...she just wanted to get it over with so she could go back home and pull off some more doll's heads!